Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kristin Anthony talked to me about moving into freelancing and consulting, positioning yourself in the market, finding clients, pricing strategies, and managing my business. Other topics: Engaging learners, elearning development costs. Estimating eLearning Development Costs. Podcast Interview on Freelancing and Consulting.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Strategies for Humanizing Training. Visual Design Basics for eLearning Development | How-To Workshop – YouTube. Tim Slade explains basics of visual design for new elearning developers, focusing on picking fonts, colors, and images, plus creating slide layouts. I share these links periodically here on my blog. Story design.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 7, 2020

The strategy here is just to get people to try to recognize the right answer from a list of options… The second phase of boosters should be sent about two weeks after the training and at this time you should send out “generative boosters.” One problem was that he had no overall strategy for his marketing, just a lot of tactics.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I adapted this from a coding scheme developed by Baker et al (2004), as cited in Baker et al (2010). However, behavioral engagement alone, especially at that superficial level, isn’t enough to develop new skills. Cognitive engagement can be defined as “mental effort and thinking strategies.”

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 22, 2022

This is a full-day workshop on April 19 where participants will design and develop a branching scenario practice activity in one day. Morning Buzz MB15: Best Practices for Designing and Developing Scenarios. This is a casual conversation where we’ll discuss tips for designing and developing scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Randomness was never part of his compositional strategy. “My This is outside my usual learning-related resource, but I think it’s relevant to IDs and elearning developers because we tend to generate loads of digital files. My philosophy was that it should be like life,” he tells you. Virtuous choices didn’t always pay off.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 21, 2021

You can develop it with practice and training. With practice, feedback, and the right strategies, you can improve your story writing skills. Even if you don’t have the budget for something at this level, you can use this worst case scenario strategy. We tell stories about ourselves all the time.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 21, 2020

One strategy is to look at online colleges and universities, including community colleges. On the corporate side, companies that specialize in creating elearning for other organizations frequently hire remote instructional designers and elearning developers. Higher education. eLearning companies. Job boards and other sites.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Technology can facilitate scenario-based elearning development (authoring tools can make it easier than in the past). This document from Massey University in New Zealand explains some theory behind why scenario-based learning works and how to decide if scenario-based learning (SBL) is the right strategy. Real-life decision making.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 22, 2021

What are some strategies for managing the complexity of branching scenarios? I often Twine as my initial draft and prototype, then export everything to Word as a storyboard for developers to build the final version in Storyline. One of the issues with branching scenarios is that you can get exponential growth. Plan the scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2011

Some of the ideas in education reform that we hear the most about (such as class size) maybe aren’t as important or have as much impact as other strategies. My new thought: Not the high-yield strategy that I believed. tags: research learning education k-12 evaluation. Class Size. Formative Evaluation of programs.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 20, 2017

You can develop it with practice and training. With practice, feedback, and the right strategies, you can improve your story writing skills. Even if you don’t have the budget for something at this level, you can use this worst case scenario strategy. Congratulations–you’re a storyteller! Other Objections?

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Engaging Learners with Video: Passive and Active Engagement Strategies by Matthew Pierce. It’s always a pleasure to hear from Matt Pierce, who shared a long list of strategies for getting and keeping engagement during videos. Those estimates are just for development, excluding pre-production activities like storyboarding and scripting.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Wendy Wickham tells stories of her experiences developing and delivering training. Learn and Lead by Manish Mohan covers learning development from a management perspective.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 4, 2014

I’ve seen people argue that IDs should have content expertise in the fields where they develop courses. Connie explains some strategies for gaining knowledge when you’re not a mini-SME: preexisting content, instructional analysis, task analysis, research, and interviews. Lifelong learning is a major perk of this career.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week, I’ll be speaking with Luis Malbas of the Training, Learning, and Development Community (TLDC) on Wednesday, February 5 at 11:00 EST. We’re going to talk about the differences between graduate certificates and master’s degrees, including which are most valuable, to whom, and why.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 5, 2008

Basic ratios for developing learning content, from 34:1 for ILT to 750:1 for simulations. That’s 34 hours of development for 1 hour of instructor-led training.) Content Migrations: Options, Strategies and Faux Pas. | Bryan Chapman. Compiled from multiple Brandon Hall research reports.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Official description: Thomson Reuters meets the challenge of supporting the learning and development of its employees across the world through the innovative use of technology and a strategy based on the 70:20:10 model. 70% learn and develop thru experience. 20% learn & develop thru others. Charles Jennings.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 21, 2022

For diversity and inclusion training to stick, it needs support, reinforcement and a firm foundation in a broader talent management strategy that includes culture, leadership and learning and development. This was focused on specific behavioral strategies to shift their biased thinking. [P]articipants Kellye Whitney.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Choosing an Instructional Strategy. Developing Materials. Planning (including estimating schedule and cost). Analysis (what he calls “Information Needed to Start a Project”). Objectives. Organizing Content. Preparing and Producing Materials. Quality Checks. Administration.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 4, 2023

While branching scenarios are one effective strategy, a range of options beyond branching are available for incorporating storytelling and scenarios in elearning. Many of these strategies can be used regardless of what development tool you use.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

These alternatives use some elements of branching scenarios but are simpler to design and develop. What criteria can help you choose branching scenarios or other strategies. They’ll also discuss what skills people need to develop now to be ready for how instructional design will transform over time.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In learning and development, the creation of characters plays a pivotal role in scenario-based learning. Character creation for learning Here’s the description of my session: In Dungeons & Dragons, character creation is the foundation of epic storytelling.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

I don’t find developing software simulations to be particularly rewarding, for example, because there often isn’t a ton of creativity. Some organizations do evaluate at all four of Kirkpatrick’s levels, and the Success Case Method is another good strategy for evaluating training effectiveness. New Trends.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 3, 2016

I started blogging in December 2006 as a tool for my own professional development. Blogging is not a quick marketing strategy where you’ll write a few posts and have lots of new clients next week. What strategies are working for you? Thanks to Patti Bryant for organizing the group and sharing the recordings each week.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 4, 2022

An informal poll in a LinkedIn group a while back showed that most IDs and eLearning developers are already trying to represent diversity in race in the images in their courses. Because these are SVG images with separate layers for each feature, it’s easy to mix and match to customize your characters. Image resources.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Development. In addition to writing, you can use research to inform your elearning development. In writing and development, I often apply research without necessarily being conscious of it. I want to be able to respond intelligently about better strategies for microlearning and learning with video. Visual design.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 13, 2023

A narrow focus lets you create something that is useful for your audience without being too big to develop and manage. If you need a broad but shallow overview of a large topic, a branching scenario probably isn’t the best strategy. If you narrow your focus for branching scenarios, you can alleviate that issue.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 11, 2023

Pay transparency is one of the strategies to reduce the gender pay gap. They can teach you some of the strategies. “Get Paid What You’re Worth,” part of the free TLDC Women of Learning and Development 2023 online conference. Registration required to view. Upcoming events Friday, March 31 11:00 AM ET.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 23, 2023

Those strategies are valuable and important, but they’re not enough to train people to fluency. ” “Yes, we can replace the photos with custom illustrations throughout the whole module, and it will cost $$$$ for the illustrator plus add 3 weeks to the development time.” Fluency requires lots and lots of practice.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2021

One strategy for creating a story for learning is delivering content with two narrators having a conversation. This strategy is frequently used in television and film to deliver content. What is conversation-driven elearning? This differs from the traditional approach of a single narrator lecturing.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 19, 2021

If you’re thinking about trying this strategy, what else do you need to get started? Tom: Why does that matter? What Else Do You Need? I’ve heard from several readers that this technique is one they can apply to their projects. Ask your questions or tell me what else you want to know in the comments or by replying to email.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Scenario-based-learning : PDF explaining theory and how to decide if SBL is the right strategy. Are the outcomes based on skills development or problem-solving? * Do you have time and resources to design, develop, and test an SBL approach? best acquired and more fully understood when situated within its context (Kindley, 2002).

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 30, 2017

Decide on the instructional strategy, technique, and technology after you figure out the assessment. Jennifer Nilsson: Best Practices Training Should Steal from Software Development. We talk a lot about stealing agile methods from software development, but Jennifer’s presentation was about other proven practices.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 19, 2018

Julie Dirksen: Strategies for Supporting Complex Skill Development. Simple things like showing a video or a little information to explain features is very doable. We tested Zappar in the session to create a quick sample, but Layar also looks promising. How do you know if something is a skill or not?

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you’re thinking about trying this strategy, what else do you need to get started? What Else Do You Need? I’ve heard from several readers already that this technique is one they can apply to their projects. Ask your questions or tell me what else you want to know in the comments.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 13, 2012

The book covers the whole process of mobile content, from finding opportunities and initial strategy through development, prototypes and pilots, and deployment. However, when I have an actual mobile project to complete, I think I’ll be glad that information is there.

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